Panama : clash of cultures on the frontier / produced by Sandy Tolan and Nancy Postero ; hosted by Edward James Olmos.

Program Title:

Series Title:

Vanishing homelands : a chronicle of change across the Americas ; no. 6

PRA Archive #:

SZ0729.06

Description:

Documentary series which traces the changes in lands and cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean since the voyage of Columbus.|PANAMA : CLASH OF CULTURES ON THE FRONTIER / produced by Sandy Tolan and Nancy Postero| hosted by Edward James Olmos. - SERIES: Vanishing homelands : a chronicle of change across the Americas| no. 6 - Documentary series which traces the changes in lands and cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean since the voyage of Columbus. CONTENT: Traces a development plan that went bad when the construction of a road and hydroelectric dam in eastern Panama created massive deforestation through an influx of settlers. Instead of the promised electrical and industrial development, the region's Kuna Indians are facing extinction. - RECORDED: 1992.

Traces a development plan that went bad when the construction of a road and hydroelectric dam in eastern Panama created massive deforestation through an influx of settlers. Instead of the promised electrical and industrial development, the region's Kuna Indians are facing extinction.

Station:

Non Pacifica Programming

Date Recorded on:

1992.

Date Broadcast on:

-0-

Item duration:

1 reel (29 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., mono.|29:00

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Panama -- Social conditions.

Tolan, Sandy.

Postero, Nancy.

Olmos, Edward James.

Kuna Indians -- Economic conditions.

Indians of Central America -- Government relations.

Panama : clash of cultures on the frontier / produced by Sandy Tolan and Nancy Postero ; hosted by Edward James Olmos.

Distributor:

Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1992.

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